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Rewrite it in C. Great idea. Just do not tell it to rust community... I like to see that programmers like you still exist and belive in what they do. Remember

by modevs 2y ago

Rewrite it in C. Great idea. Just do not tell it to rust community... I like to see that programmers like you still exist and belive in what they do. Remembered this article... https://drewdevault.com/2019/03/25/Rust-is-not-a-good-C-replacement.html https://drewdevault.com/2019/03/25/Rust-is-not-a-good-C-repl...

Ar-Curunir 2y ago
What does that article have to do with this article? The author of the latter article even says that they don’t enjoy writing C, which is kind of the opposite of what your article says
mustache_kimono 2y ago
> Remembered this article... https://drewdevault.com/2019/03/25/Rust-is-not-a-good-C-replacement.html https://drewdevault.com/2019/03/25/Rust-is-not-a-good-C-repl... Remembering Drew Devault is the Fox News of programming bloggers. He exhibits the same sort of bad faith obtuseness, and knee-jerk neck beard tech conservatism, that makes me/many want to scream. First, his thesis is risible. "Rust is not a good C replacement". Note, Drew does not mean replace C code with Rust code, but Rust, the language, literally replacing C, the language. Ignoring, perhaps, Rust doesn't want to "replace" C, because we have C! Next, see the bulleted text. Upon each topic something interesting might be said re: Rust, but instead they all serve a garbage thesis that Rust can never be the 50 year old language that the tech world is currently built upon. Well, duh. My least favorite, though, is the final bullet: > Safety. Yes, Rust is more safe. I don’t really care. In light of all of these problems, I’ll take my segfaults and buffer overflows. And everyone wants to be a cowboy and watch things blow up when they are 8 years old.
samsartor 2y ago
The community has been very supportive of the gccrs (https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs) project, which is the main project to write a Rust compiler written in C.
- Narishma 2y ago
  I wouldn't say very supportive at all. It often gets bashed whenever some news about it is posted on r/rust for example.
- jenadine 2y ago
  It's in C++, not C

by modevs 2y ago

Ar-Curunir 2y ago

What does that article have to do with this article? The author of the latter article even says that they don’t enjoy writing C, which is kind of the opposite of what your article says

mustache_kimono 2y ago

> Remembered this article... https://drewdevault.com/2019/03/25/Rust-is-not-a-good-C-replacement.html https://drewdevault.com/2019/03/25/Rust-is-not-a-good-C-repl... Remembering Drew Devault is the Fox News of programming bloggers. He exhibits the same sort of bad faith obtuseness, and knee-jerk neck beard tech conservatism, that makes me/many want to scream. First, his thesis is risible. "Rust is not a good C replacement". Note, Drew does not mean replace C code with Rust code, but Rust, the language, literally replacing C, the language. Ignoring, perhaps, Rust doesn't want to "replace" C, because we have C! Next, see the bulleted text. Upon each topic something interesting might be said re: Rust, but instead they all serve a garbage thesis that Rust can never be the 50 year old language that the tech world is currently built upon. Well, duh. My least favorite, though, is the final bullet: > Safety. Yes, Rust is more safe. I don’t really care. In light of all of these problems, I’ll take my segfaults and buffer overflows. And everyone wants to be a cowboy and watch things blow up when they are 8 years old.

samsartor 2y ago

The community has been very supportive of the gccrs (https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs) project, which is the main project to write a Rust compiler written in C.

Narishma 2y ago
I wouldn't say very supportive at all. It often gets bashed whenever some news about it is posted on r/rust for example.
jenadine 2y ago
It's in C++, not C